A book excerpt details how a small team of content curators hired by ByteDance in Mexico City in 2018 shaped TikTok's For You algorithm in Latin America
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Source: Mexico City-based Kapital, which offers financial visibility tools to SMBs, raised an $86M Series C led by Tribe Capital at a ~$1.3B valuation
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Mexico City-based digital bank Klar raised a $190M Series C led by General Atlantic, including $170M in equity and $20M in debt, valuing the startup at $800M+
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Mendel, which offers corporate spend management tools for companies in Latin America, raises a $35M Series B led by Base10, bringing its total funding to $60M
Mexico City-based Mendel has raised $35 million in a Series B round of funding, it tells TechCrunch exclusively.
Mexico City-based Kapital, which offers financial visibility tools to SMBs, raised a $40M Series B and $125M in debt, after raising a $20M Series A in May 2023
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An influx of digital nomads, mostly from the US, in Medellín, Mexico City, and other cities is boosting local economies, as locals complain of being priced out
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Mexico City-based Avalor, which helps aggregate, normalize, de-duplicate, and track risk data from discovery to remediation, raised a $25M Series A led by TCV
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An investigation details how Mexico became Pegasus' first client, grew to be its most prolific user, and continues to use the spyware despite promising to stop
A Times investigation reveals the story behind how Mexico became the first and most prolific user of Pegasus. Tweets: @el_reportero , @llchristyll , @lkatzenberg , @diazbriseno , @justinhendrix , and ...
At Microsoft's demo last week, the “new Bing” incorrectly summarized Gap's Q3 2022 earnings and provided wrong info on a pet vacuum and Mexico City nightlife
Microsoft knowingly released a broken product for short-term hype — Bing AI got some answers completely wrong during their demo.
Mexico City-based used car marketplace Kavak, which is Latin America's biggest startup, raised $810M in debt financing, potentially rising to $1.2B in 2022
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